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(AP) – PARK CITY, Utah – Despite rumored anti-gay protests, a Sundance Film Festival documentary about the Mormon church’s role in a 2008 California political battle over gay marriage played to a friendly audience on Sunday in Park City. Only about two dozen gay marriage activists chanted-”Separate, church from 8″-in a parking lot outside the premiere of “8: The Mormon Proposition.” The film by Reed Cowan, a former Utah Mormon, contends that the locally based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the driving force behind Proposition 8. The ballot…

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The Utah-based Mormon church plays a starring role in a new Sundance Film Festival documentary about the 2008 ballot initiative that successfully banned gay marriage in California.

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Salt Lake City, USA – Using data compiled from its 2009 surveys, the Gallup Poll has confirmed what some have long seen as an honor and others as a criticism — members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints comprise the most conservative of the major religious groups in the United States.

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From Muslims to Mormons, religious groups across the country are opening their hearts and wallets to get food, water, blankets and medical help to millions of Haitians victimized by Tuesday’s deadly 7.0 magnitude earthquake. The Alexandria, Va.-based Islamic Relief USA announced it was teaming up with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to fly $1 million worth of aid to the stricken country. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced it would take up a special collection in churches this weekend to go to Catholic Relief Services (CRS), which has committed an initial $5 million to Haiti. Students …

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LAS VEGAS (Dec. 31) — The blonde pulled up her shirt to expose her breasts, the male couple French-kissed with reckless abandon and the gang of friends from the University of Vermont posed for pictures holding up yard-long drinks and brandishing obscene hand gestures. All standard fare for New Year’s Eve here, to be sure.

Yet these revelers did so both with great amusement and plenty of spite, reactions to a far more incongruous sight for the wildest party Sin City throws each year: A row in the middle of Las Vegas Strip of about 30 evangelical preachers waving gigantic placards warning of eternal damnation for the “porno freaks,” “baby killers,” astrologers, Mormons, Muslims, gays and “so-called Christians” in their midst.

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The popular Twilight series, which has spawned a film franchise that releases its second installment, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Friday, is getting mixed reactions from Christians who alternately see it as a doorway into Satanism or a tool for evangelism, reports Charisma News Online.

Since 2005, Mormon author Stephenie Meyer’s four novels about a vampire named Edward Cullen who hunts game rather than humans and falls in love with teenager Bella Swan have sold more than 70 million copies. T… >>

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(AP) – SAN FRANCISCO – The Mormon church and Boy Scouts of America were named as defendants in lawsuits Monday claiming childhood sexual abuse by youth leaders decades ago. Alleged victims filed suits against both organizations in San Francisco and Seattle, and against the church alone in Portland, Ore. The plaintiffs are all represented by Portland attorney Kelly Clark, who has brought similar suits against the church and the Boy Scouts in the past. In the suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court, three…

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Gay rights groups commended the Mormon church for supporting a Salt Lake City ordinance banning discrimination in housing and at work.

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AP – The Mormon church for the first time has announced its support of gay rights legislation, an endorsement that helped gain unanimous approval for Salt Lake city laws banning discrimination against gays in housing and employment.

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AP – New signs at a Mormon church-owned plaza in downtown Salt Lake City put visitors on notice: Anyone can be asked to leave for any reason.

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(AP) – SALT LAKE CITY – Mormon church historians are set to release the second book in a 30-volume documentary series that chronicles the life and work of the faith’s founder. “The Joseph Smith Papers: Revelations and Translations” is the first of two volumes documenting the manuscripts of Smith’s revelations that shaped the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of…

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Gay & Lesbian Leadership SmartBrief | 09/18/2009 Salt Lake Tribune (Utah), The(09/16) Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Tuesday, April 21, 2009 Sign up for Gay & Lesbian Leadership SmartBrief Designed specifically for gay and lesbian officials, business,

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Updated: 09/16/2009 09:44:46 AM MDT Click photo to enlarge Russ Baker-Gorringe hugs his daughter Emily. Baker-Gorringe tried for decades to do as his LDS Church leaders told him: Live as a straight man. He married, had four children, but ultimately came out as gay and divorced his wife. Now, he's been married to his partner Joe for four years. Even as a 3-year-old, Russ Baker-Gorringe sensed he was different from the other boys he watched playing kick the can in the street. But, as a Mormon, he grew up believing that faith could heal what he later realized he was feeling: He was gay. He served a mission, married a "beautiful" woman in an LDS temple and had four children. "I knew I was…

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2009 edition » In new volume from Yale, linguist details hundreds of changes that could be made to match earliest text.Updated: 09/11/2009 12:12:42 AM MDT Click photo to enlargeRoyal Skousen has spent years researching the original manuscripts of the Book of Mormon to analyze the changes in text that have occurred along the way. In his home office he goes through 20 editions of the Book of Mormon dating back to the early 1800's that he's used to track evolution of the text from original to the present day. Here he points out a spelling error in a 1920 edition of the Book of Mormon. He will release a book this month that brings the Book of Mormon's text as close to that original…

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Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, has spent time on and off for the last seven years building a defense of the Book of Mormon, one of the key tomes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Religion News Service reports.

The three-term senator — A former missionary and bishop and the grandson of a past president of the church — has now delved into a different debate: whether the book Mormons believe was revealed by an angel to their founder Joseph Smith in the 1820s is authentic.

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The head football coach at Breckinridge County High School made it his personal mission (he paid the bus fuel) to take 20 players to a revival event at his church where where nine players came forward to be baptized. That is, after all, the point of a revival. Imagine the hullabaloo if a Jewish or Muslim or Mormon coach carted the team bus to a free-dinner-team-bonding event, no permission slips necessary, where, oh, incidentally, included being invited to change their religion?

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By Ardis E. Parshall Special to The TribuneUpdated: 09/07/2009 11:56:59 AM MDT Although the practice has generally passed away, for much of this country's history it has been customary for businessmen and private citizens to assist the charitable work of ministers by volunteering services to the clergy. Because ministers — poorly paid at best — devoted their lives to the betterment of society, it was felt, society could afford to ease their way. Mormon missionaries benefitted greatly by this custom during the 19th century. Traveling "without purse or scrip," in the Biblical term, they sought the…

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(AP) – SALT LAKE CITY – The Mormon church has indefinitely closed a temple in Nigeria as a precaution following recent violence in the area. The Deseret News in Salt Lake City reported in its online edition Wednesday that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also has evacuated temple workers to other areas. Church spokesman…

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is investigating the posthumous “baptism” of President Barack Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, as a “serious breach” of religious code, a spokeswoman said.

Church records published by a liberal blog, Americablog, show that Dunham, who died in 1995, was baptised last June 4 in Provo, Utah, and received endowment, another sacrament, a week later.

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